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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1059 )

• Back to Oz

  

  As dedicated friends of Dorothy, it’s been a long old slog along the yellow brick road back to Oz. Two years later than planned because of COVID, we finally... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Eyes to the Right

  

  Another year passes, another joint birthday to mark. These days we prefer doing rather than giving so this year we decided to do a bit more of London by taking... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• There, Their, They’re

  

  Our green and usually pleasant land contains an intricate patchwork of regional accents and dialects with a constantly shifting lexicon of words and idioms,... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Where is St Edmund Buried?

  

  In Bury St Edmunds, obviously – or is he? The cute Suffolk market town might be the final resting place of St Edmund, ninth-century Christian king of East... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Catch Me If You Can

  

  Nearly three years down the line, we really thought we’d dodged the COVID bullet. But then our luck ran out. While in Bulgaria, we both started to develop a... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Postcard from Bulgaria

  

  We got the hot gossip washed down with Bulgarian plonk we were hoping for. But that didn’t mean our entire trip was a non-stop booze-fest. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bulgaria Beckons

  

  We’re parachuting into Bulgaria for a few days to catch up with a couple of former Bodrum Belles from our Turkey days. They upped sticks and left Turkey soon... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)

  

  At the tender age of 12, Rob put on a full-blown Disney parade for his giggly Grandma. In dodgy wigs and improvised costumes, he gave her Ariel, Belle, Mary... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Go West, Young Man

  

  We have old friends in Torquay, a palm tree-lined seaside resort in Devon. We hadn’t seen them in ages because of the pandemic, so a catch-up was well overdue. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Waitress

  

  Take Steel Magnolias, add a dash of Thelma and Louise, a big dollop of Burl Ives in a white linen suit, sprinkle with slapstick, mix with some catchy toons, the... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• GoGo Mammoths

  

  Over the past decade Norwich has seen an invasion of psychedelic mountain gorillas, a parade of glittery elephants, the flight of the camp dragons, a husk of... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Way to Go, Tom Daley

  

  Our rainbow day came hot on the heels of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham earlier that week. Eccentric, multicultural and with ... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Welcome Back, Norwich Pride

  

  Last Saturday Norwich Pride was back painting the town pink after a three-year absence because of you know what. And it was back with a bang – bigger, brasher... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ant Wars

  

  We returned from our glorious Greek idyll to a heatwave and an invasion of tiny black ants. The little buggers were climbing up and down our narrow cottage... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Postcard from Paxos

  

  After flying into Corfu, we had some time to kill before our ferry to Paxos so we dropped off our suitcases at left luggage and went for a casual stroll around... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Greek Treat

  

  After the big letdown that was our Canarian getaway – cancelled flight, greyish skies, cool-ish nights, sad face, sad face – a Greek treat is next on the holida... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Must Be Kismet

  

  Perking the Pansies runs on WordPress, the blogosphere top dog. And being best in breed, it comes with a catch-all spam filter called Akismet which keeps the... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ten Lucky Years

  

  A decade has now passed since we closed the door on the stone house in Bodrum for the last time and brought our four-year Turkish adventure to a sudden end. Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tenerife: Was It Worth It?

  

  Not really. Our digs were great – comfy and well-dressed – and the staff were fantastic but, let’s face it, the point of any holiday in the sun is, well, the... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• We Cross the ‘T’s, Dot the ‘I’s and Put ‘U’ in the Middle

  

  This spells out TUI (get it?) and is the not so catchy slogan from probably Europe’s largest travel company. Sadly there wasn’t much crossing and dotting going... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2022 DIARIES, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION